007tallguy
Elite Member
i was up before the birds today and headed off to beach for a little bit of searching. the tide was fairly low and on the rise, but i still had a couple of hours before the high tide and basically had the beach all to myself for over 2 hours.
a lot of rocks were exposed up around the "dry sand" area and seaweed everywhere, but that didn't stop me.
within 10 minutes i had my first coin, a Canadian Loonie (dollar coin). hit a few more clad coins for a total of $1.26.... which almost paid for my coffee this morning, haha.
i kept on working the dry sand and hit one iffy little signal right where the wooden steps lead from the road to the beach. i was getting very confused readings on the actual depth of the item, and a big blob of seaweed just happened to be right there in the way but... persistance and the Pro Pointer solved the mystery for me.... a tiny little earring stud thingy!
ok, maybe not so tiny. my jaw dropped when i saw the ROCK in this thing! the stud is stamped .925, so i don't have any doubt about the silver, but as for that HUGE rock in it, most likely a CZ as i can't really picture anyone putting a stone that large in a silver setting, nor wearing a diamond of that size at a beach around here, lol.
skip ahead a half hour or so, tide is getting fairly high and i'm almost ready to leave and another small but strong signal. low and behold, i see YELLOW!!! i recover a tiny little "Die" pendant from a necklace. i strained the heck out of my eyes and sure enough --->> 14K....!!! it's hollow and after i shook the sand out of it, it's just under 1 gram. not very big, not very heavy, but hey... it's still gold! oh, and i looked and looked and no sign of the actual chain.
i tried a few close-up. sorry they're not the greatest quality, but you get the idea. (a penny and dime there for size reference)
thanks for reading,
Pete
a lot of rocks were exposed up around the "dry sand" area and seaweed everywhere, but that didn't stop me.
within 10 minutes i had my first coin, a Canadian Loonie (dollar coin). hit a few more clad coins for a total of $1.26.... which almost paid for my coffee this morning, haha.
i kept on working the dry sand and hit one iffy little signal right where the wooden steps lead from the road to the beach. i was getting very confused readings on the actual depth of the item, and a big blob of seaweed just happened to be right there in the way but... persistance and the Pro Pointer solved the mystery for me.... a tiny little earring stud thingy!
ok, maybe not so tiny. my jaw dropped when i saw the ROCK in this thing! the stud is stamped .925, so i don't have any doubt about the silver, but as for that HUGE rock in it, most likely a CZ as i can't really picture anyone putting a stone that large in a silver setting, nor wearing a diamond of that size at a beach around here, lol.
skip ahead a half hour or so, tide is getting fairly high and i'm almost ready to leave and another small but strong signal. low and behold, i see YELLOW!!! i recover a tiny little "Die" pendant from a necklace. i strained the heck out of my eyes and sure enough --->> 14K....!!! it's hollow and after i shook the sand out of it, it's just under 1 gram. not very big, not very heavy, but hey... it's still gold! oh, and i looked and looked and no sign of the actual chain.
i tried a few close-up. sorry they're not the greatest quality, but you get the idea. (a penny and dime there for size reference)
thanks for reading,
Pete